Everyday Problems – Insomnia (Part 2)

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In the previous lesson on everyday problems, I mainly talked about headaches. 

Today we will explore other types of pain or discomfort, caused by both "normal" factors and completely "abnormal" reasons, namely energetic influences that have affected us, such as the presence of negative entities that follow us. We will focus particularly on insomnia, nightmares that sometimes disturb our sleep, and headaches that wake us up in the middle of the night or accompany us from the moment we wake up until it is time to go back to sleep. Although the night is often disturbed by negative presences, we must first discuss the normal reasons that could cause problems that are easily confused with other issues. First, insomnia. Insomnia can be divided into three types: the first problem arises when you go to bed but, despite being sleepy, you just can't fall asleep, and so the hours pass by with you lying awake without the slightest sign of falling asleep. Only when it is almost time to get out of bed do you finally fall asleep, but an hour or two later the alarm clock rings and you have to get up. If this happens only once, there is no problem, because the next day you will be more tired and, as a result, you will fall asleep as soon as your head hits the pillow. But insomnia is the exact opposite, because even though you feel tired from the night before when you didn't sleep at all, the increase in tiredness seems to make things worse, so much so that even though you are very sleepy, you won't be able to fall asleep even on the second night. On the third day, you will have accumulated a lot of sleep, yet you will still find it difficult to fall asleep. This goes on and on, every day you are tired because you lose hours and hours of sleep, yet this tiredness does not make you fall asleep faster at night, but rather seems to make it worse. This is how the first case of insomnia behaves, and those who do not live with it do not know how true it is that you do not sleep all night. Others think it's just a figure of speech, that at most you wake up often during the night but still fall asleep from time to time; or they think you fell asleep but didn't realize it, so you don't really suffer from insomnia as you say, but that you "imagined" it. Those who haven't experienced it don't know what it means! Especially because people think it's impossible to live with chronic insomnia, that it's impossible to be alive if you hardly sleep at all at night; in reality, it can happen, because a person can live on just 2-3 hours of sleep. The problem is that lack of rest (in those who have not meditated for some time) can lead to headaches, nervousness, and other serious disorders. The situation is different for those who have been meditating for some time, but we will discuss this later. 

The second type of insomnia does not start from the beginning as in the first case, because the person in question, unlike in the first case, falls asleep as soon as they go to bed. The problem occurs during the night, with continuous moments of awakening, in which the person wakes up even twice an hour throughout the night, waking up for no reason even every half hour or every hour. There is no logical reason for this, as there are no noises, no disturbances, no mosquitoes buzzing in your ear, yet every hour or so you wake up and open your eyes wide. This constant waking up in the middle of sleep is very disturbing, because even if you manage to sleep a little, you are constantly disturbed and this also creates a habit in your body, where even when there is no longer any reason to wake up repeatedly, you continue to do so because you have become accustomed to it. In the third case of insomnia, however, the person falls asleep fairly quickly or at least within the normal range, does not wake up repeatedly during the night, but from the moment they wake up once (which could be at 5:30 in the morning), they are unable to fall asleep again. So, the person may have managed to sleep for 4-5 hours, but their desire was to get up at 7:00 a.m., because that is when their alarm goes off; instead, they wake up at 5:30 a.m. and from that moment on, they will remain awake without being able to fall back asleep until it is time to get out of bed. 

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Having listed these three sleep disorders in general terms, a person may suffer from one, two, or all three disorders simultaneously, for a short, long, or very long period of their life. Sleep problems are very disturbing because not sleeping for a very long period of time disrupts many functions of your body and mind, starting with blocking hunger or, conversely, making you feel hungry all the time even when you don't really need to eat, because it throws your internal senses out of balance. it disrupts your concentration and intelligence, slows down your thinking and the arrival of the solutions you need to deal with everyday problems; and these are just some of the consequences. In short, it is a major obstacle. It is therefore essential to understand the reasons why we wake up repeatedly or cannot fall asleep at all, in order to get to the bottom of the situation and overcome this problem without getting used to it as if it were okay. 

Let's start with a natural cause. The reason why we often suffer from insomnia is poor digestion at night. Now, everyone thinks they don't suffer from poor digestion, as it is believed that if they did, they would notice it immediately! In fact, we expect poor digestion to necessarily cause pain or discomfort in the stomach or abdomen, and therefore to be a very obvious and easy-to-recognize disorder. In reality, this is not the case, because at night your body may struggle to digest food and, despite this, manage not to cause you any pain or discomfort in the stomach or intestines. On the other hand, it is also thought that "people who suffer from digestive problems" are a different breed, i.e., a specific type of person, such as the elderly, without realizing that digestive problems affect everyone and not just one type of person. You may have suffered from poor digestion since childhood and not realized it, despite chronic insomnia. Or, until recently, you may never have experienced similar problems, yet you have recently started suffering from insomnia, even though your eating habits have not changed. Perhaps your dinner habits haven't changed, but your body has, because it changes without warning and without asking your permission, even from one day to the next. In addition, there are times when our bodies are weaker and even ailments we have never suffered from before begin to appear and make themselves felt. Digestive problems are nothing more than the difficulty of digesting the previous evening's dinner as the body enters the sleep phase, i.e., while we are lying in bed. My personal method of finding the real cause of the problem is to use a process of elimination, i.e., ruling out all the various causes until I finally arrive at the only one responsible. But you shouldn't eliminate causes based on logical reasoning! Instead, you need to exclude them after trying out new behaviors on yourself so that you can rule out that problem, physically and with facts. In other words, don't rule out the possibility that you suffer from poor digestion just because you think it's not your problem; only rule it out after doing some tests on yourself to see if it's your problem. 

The test I am talking about is very simple: change the type of dinner you eat for 2-3 evenings in a row and see what happens. There is no need to go on a diet or change your lifestyle forever, but I am advising you to spend 2-3 days eating only vegetables for dinner, in quantities that you decide, as you are not going on a diet, so you don't have to go hungry. Instead, you're going to see if your insomnia continues or stops suddenly with a light, easily digestible dinner, such as vegetables. This will help you understand whether your problem is caused by poor digestion at night or not. If the answer is yes, you've solved your problem, which is great news! If the result is negative, you will have realized that your insomnia is not caused by poor digestion and you can rule it out as a possibility, allowing you to focus on other causes without any doubts or uncertainties. So, trying a vegetable-only dinner for two or three nights will allow you to clear up any doubts you may have about your sleep disorders. Here are some useful tips to help you digest and sleep better.

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I repeat that this is not a diet, but a test to see if your insomnia or nightmares are caused by poor digestion or not. So don't worry about eating only vegetables for dinner for two nights, because you're not becoming vegan, you're not going to starve, and you're not going to gain weight. You're just testing what's causing your problems at night. So choose to eat only vegetables for dinner, such as a large mixed salad that will fill you up, because obviously you shouldn't go hungry; eating salad is not synonymous with eating little, because you shouldn't wake up hungry at night. Even better if you prefer cooked vegetables, such as a hearty minestrone, so that you don't feel the need to eat it with bread or pasta (this also applies to the small pasta put in soups), which should be avoided for these two nights of testing. 

So, eat dinner at least 3 hours before going to bed, eat only vegetables and avoid potatoes, pasta, pizza, and everything else. Eat enough vegetables to feel full, don't be afraid to eat a lot, because vegetables don't make you fat or harm your body! Unlike many other foods that we eat in excess and believe are good for us. After dinner, obviously do not eat dessert and make sure you do not eat anything else, not even small things that you think will not affect your digestion, especially if we are talking about snacks such as chips, chocolates, even if small, or other salty or sweet snacks. We are talking about 2-3 nights of testing to see if this affects your sleep. You will not die if you avoid eating sweets and snacks for 3 nights. Another important tip is to avoid drinking stimulating beverages in the evening, so I recommend avoiding coffee, Coca-Cola, other carbonated and sugary drinks, and bottled tea after 7:00 p.m., because these drinks are not only full of sugar and bad for you, but they also disturb your sleep incredibly. I therefore recommend that you remove these drinks from your usual dinner, even if you eat at 7 p.m. sharp, because the effect of these substances could last for many hours afterwards and disturb your sleep or cause nightmares. Also avoid eating chocolate at night, as this could also keep you awake. Our body works differently at night than during the day, so while you may enjoy drinking coffee in the morning, even if you like it, you should avoid it in the evening because it keeps you awake or insomniac. This will ensure that you have a light dinner that is easy to digest. This does not mean a meager dinner, because you should not be hungry at night, but rather that you fill up on vegetables so that you will not be hungry and at the same time it will be very easy for your body to digest them. 

The last tip I want to give you to test whether your insomnia or nightmares are due to digestion is to drink a nice hot cup of digestive herbal tea or chamomile tea, completely natural, just before going to bed, and to avoid at all costs any drops or tablets sold in pharmacies as a 'miracle cure for insomnia'. because medicines that make you sleep do so chemically, which damages your mental state; they are very similar to mild psychotropic drugs and are by no means natural remedies. Your sleep problem is not due to your brain not working or mental problems, so you do not need psychotropic drugs or medicines; your sleep problem stems from other reasons, one of which is poor digestion because, without realizing it, your body cannot digest dinner as easily as it digests lunch. For this reason, it needs help, which, in addition to a light dinner (so choose vegetables instead of pasta, pizza, and red meat), is to aid digestion with a nice herbal tea or infusion in hot water, because hot water greatly improves digestion, while cold water blocks it. For this reason, it is also essential that you do not drink cold drinks in the evening, but try to prefer those at room temperature or (in summer, when it is very hot) cool but not cold. Also, keep in mind that digestion does not care whether it is winter or summer, so you would not be doing anything strange if you drank a hot herbal tea before going to sleep, even if it were summer. 

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Choose to drink a hot herbal tea or chamomile tea rather than regular tea, because some people are very sensitive to tea and this could increase the likelihood of insomnia. If you don't like the herbal teas or infusions available on the market, I recommend making your own simple laurel decoction (here are the details of the benefits of laurel), as well as adding a few laurel leaves to boiling water, then drinking a nice cup of this sweet and delicate-tasting water, which will really help you digest and fall asleep. Obviously, do not add sugar to the water, because sugar consumed in the evening and at night amplifies insomnia. 

At this point, trying this remedy for two or three nights will not cause you any problems whatsoever, because you will be eating healthily and lightly, you will be able to eat all the vegetables you want without any fear and you will still digest very well. I also recommend drinking laurel tea, or any herbal tea you like that has ingredients that aid digestion, with hot water, preferably a nice full cup so that the quantity is adequate, which will help you sleep better. Even if you are skeptical, give it a try. If, from the very first day, you realize that you have slept much better, that you have not had nightmares, and that you have hardly woken up at all compared to the previous days, you will realize that skepticism is of little use when you have proof that it took very little to solve your problem. Drinking a cup of hot water (herbal tea, chamomile tea, or herbal infusion) at night is really effective for sleeping better because it helps to eliminate digestive problems, which are what cause insomnia or nightmares. You will also notice that some foods more than others may cause insomnia. For example, you may find it difficult to digest omelettes because you don't digest eggs well at night, or French fries, which you may digest very well at lunch but not at dinner. If you know your body, you can eliminate a lot of problems that everyone suffers from and no one notices. After trying this remedy for 2-3 days, you will be able to tell if poor digestion is one of the problems disturbing your sleep. Only after trying it can you rule out this cause. Be aware that doing this for 2-3 days will only help you during that time; it is not a remedy that will cure you "forever." If you want to maintain good digestion in the long term, you will need to eat light meals and drink hot water more often during the week or even every day. This will depend on you. If, after trying the 2-3 nights of "good digestion" and still experiencing the same serious insomnia problems without the slightest improvement, it is clear that your problem was not poor digestion. On the other hand, our daily problems are not caused by a single cause, but are often created by a combination of things, which could be poor digestion or other factors. So it may be that, after trying this for 2-3 nights, you realized that something has indeed improved, but it has not changed completely, because the nightmares, for example, have stopped, yet you still wake up many times during the night; or the opposite, i.e., you sleep through the night without waking up a thousand times, but you continue to have bad dreams. In this case, it is clear that your only problem was not poor digestion, but something else! 

Another everyday reason that many people ignore as a cause of their insomnia is afternoon naps. For me, it has become unthinkable as an adult to still choose to take a nap during the day, because you have to stay awake during the day, otherwise it is obvious that you will have trouble falling asleep at night. But many say that this is not true, that even though they sleep in the afternoon, they can still sleep at night, yet these are the same people who suffer from insomnia. So why deny that afternoon naps disrupt nighttime sleep? Out of habit, simply because they don't want to admit that sleeping during the day is a bad habit. Apart from the fact that you are wasting a lot of time unnecessarily, you are taking hours away from your daily life, as if losing 8 hours of sleep at night were not enough. 

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If you feel sleepy in the afternoon and think you can't stay awake, it's only because you've gotten used to taking naps, but in reality, your body and mind don't need them at all, and it's an old habit that isn't good for you. My advice is to avoid dozing off on your bed or sofa during the daytime. From the moment you get up in the morning, your body needs to remain upright, or rather, your torso should remain vertical and not lying down. Every time you lie down on the sofa, for example to watch TV, your body enters the sleep phase and you obviously risk dozing off, thus losing hours of sleep at night. Even if you don't fall asleep, your digestion does not work as well as it should, which is why we are always told 'Don't lie down after eating', because lying down causes digestion to work differently, with obstacles. Unfortunately, we are stubborn and many prefer to go to bed 'to rest' immediately after eating, whether it's lunch or dinner, which is why we then suffer from insomnia and nightmares. Many people give in to immediate post-lunch apathy. In fact, after eating, they throw themselves on the sofa and enter that apathetic and unconscious phase, the typical "post-lunch slump." But this slump can be avoided, first of all by eating a little lighter and, above all, by deciding not to give in to apathy at every single opportunity that arises during the day. 

All you need to do is pay attention to the numerous times, without even realizing it, that you throw yourself on the sofa and lie down during the day; because simply avoiding lying down during the day is enough to significantly improve your nighttime sleep. It is important to understand that lying down completely during the day causes problems with sleep at night. It does not matter if you do not fall asleep when you lie down, because even the simple act of lying down can harm your sleep at night. It is very important for your physical health and for your sleep at night to avoid lying down all the time, even during the day. When you sit, remain composed, comfortable but composed, without letting your body become one with the sofa. This will prevent various problems, not only with sleep but also with your heart and breathing. Consider, for example, when you slump in an armchair and adopt decidedly incorrect positions, such as keeping your chin tucked into your chest, your back arched, and your breathing restricted. Or every time you sit at your desk and instead of keeping your back straight, you arch your back; the problem is not only noticeable on your back, but also on your internal organs, which are pressed and squeezed for many hours of the day. When you lean forward, in the typical hunched position, your organs are pressed and your breathing becomes labored. Even if you can still breathe, in the long run this position causes problems for your internal organs and your mental and emotional state. In fact, you will begin to feel a heavy weight on your chest, like a block preventing you from breathing properly; you will also feel much more tired, much more apathetic, and very distracted. You lose concentration and feel drained, as if someone is sucking the energy out of you. As a result, you feel more stressed and anxious throughout the day. But in reality, you could avoid these heart, chest, and mind problems simply by sitting in the correct position, i.e., straight with your back straight, without "closing" your chest against your stomach, and without holding your chin on your chest. By improving your daily posture, you can break bad habits that affect your physical health, emotional and mental stress, and therefore the various physical disorders that contribute to insomnia and nightmares. 

Many people do not know that daytime apathy contributes to disturbed sleep at night. In fact, the more "mentally tired" you are during the day, the less you sleep at night. The physical body needs to move during the day, and if you don't have the opportunity to do so because you work too many hours and have little free time, at least keep your mind awake, thus avoiding entering that phase where the body is awake but the mind is so apathetic that you seem asleep, or almost asleep. Be active during the day, don't be a sloth. No less important is what you do or don't do at night before going to bed. 

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Many people use their cell phones or computers before going to sleep, just before closing their eyes and falling asleep. Unfortunately, cell phones and computers disturb our brains, and they already disturb them a lot during the day, making us more unconscious and less focused; unfortunately, however, we cannot do without them and therefore we must adapt. However, we can do without them at night, because we can decide not to use technology just before going to sleep. Looking at a screen, even at low brightness, disturbs our mind and can lead to insomnia or nightmares; so much so that it can contribute to increasing headaches when we wake up. So it is definitely better to avoid looking at a screen just before going to sleep, because we know it disturbs our sleep. If you don't know how to fall asleep, enjoy a book instead, so you can fall asleep staring at black lines on white paper, which are not written on a bright background that disturbs your mind. Reading paper books is not the same as reading on a technological screen. 

Are you interested in another problem that can cause nighttime issues, especially waking up repeatedly during the night? It's poor air quality in the room, i.e., breathing the same air for too many hours in a row without a change of fresh air. Unfortunately, many people don't realize this because they think it's easy to understand and notice. In reality, your body gets used to it and you gradually become less aware of the problem. To give a striking example, think of someone who lives with pets, such as dogs; they no longer notice the smell of the animals and even when they move from one room to another in the house, they no longer notice the smells that the animals obviously give off around the house. On the other hand, someone who does not live with animals and is not used to these smells will immediately notice the change in smell as soon as they enter a house where there are dogs, so much so that the smell of the animals may even cause them physical discomfort, not because they are unpleasant, but because their sense of smell is so clean that it may make them feel nauseous or worse. This is because the person comes from outside, is used to breathing clean air, and as soon as they enter a house where there is little air exchange, they will smell the odors very strongly and find them unpleasant. Those who are used to breathing the same air all the time, with doors and windows always closed, obviously do not notice the problem because they are too accustomed to it; those who enter from outside, on the other hand, immediately notice that there is little air inside the house, that it is difficult to breathe, and that the windows need to be opened immediately. Air exchange is not only necessary to change the smell of the house (which is by no means a minor reason, because bad smells in the house bring bacteria and health problems!), but also to let in more oxygen and clean air, removing various substances that circulate in the indoor air which, even if you cannot see or recognize them as smells, are still present. For example, the gas that comes out of the kitchen while you are preparing lunch and dinner, or the odors and bacteria that come out of the kitchen or bathroom sink, or those that come out of the toilet both when you use it and when it is "clean"; even if you cannot see them, bacteria circulate in the air and you continue to breathe them in. 

A typical nighttime problem is the habit many people have of rarely changing the air in their bedrooms. During the day, you don't open the windows for fear of letting insects in, and at night you don't open them because it's cold. There's a different excuse for every hour of the day. The point is that your body needs clean air, not just your lungs but also your brain, otherwise it suffers. You don't notice it during the night, but you are breathing the same air that has been trapped in that room for hours on end. Just think that for 8 hours straight you keep breathing the same air without it ever being changed. This can cause you to wake up in the morning with a headache, because you have been breathing little and dirty air all night long. Even worse, if the room is very small, it is even more necessary to change the air several times a day, as it easily becomes stagnant. This means that you wake up several times during the night because your body senses the lack of oxygen but does not know how to communicate this to you, so you wake up constantly and, sometimes, you may even wake up with a headache and nausea because you urgently need to open the windows and let in some fresh air. 

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Obviously, there is air in the room, and you are not at risk of suffocating during the night, but that does not mean you should spend the night breathing the same dirty air, because when you wake up, you will have a nasty surprise in the form of a headache. My advice is to keep the window open all day or open and close it several times a day. Before going to bed, it would be best to air the room for at least 10-15 minutes (perhaps while you are in the kitchen sipping hot water), because 2 minutes is not enough to let clean air in, unless there is a very strong wind, but when that happens, we tend to close the windows to prevent them from banging; so, once again, any reason is a good reason to keep everything closed. By the way, make sure you drink at least a little water before going to bed, even if you have already drunk herbal tea a little earlier. Some people are convinced that drinking water before going to bed is wrong, as it may cause you to get up to go to the bathroom; however, what these people do not consider is that you will spend the next 8 hours without drinking water, as you will be asleep. Our bodies need water, and we already have a bad habit of not drinking enough during the day. If we then go another 8 hours without drinking at night, how can we expect to wake up in the morning? With a headache, of course! So make sure you drink water before going to bed; even if you have to get up once to go to the bathroom, it's not as bad as waking up in the morning with a severe headache. That said, changing the air we breathe is not a minor detail, but a very important reason indeed. If there is mold in your home, pay serious attention because the physical damage caused by mold should not be underestimated. 

I have decided to give you this advice because, yes, this is a spiritual journey in which we talk about energies, dimensional presences, etc., but that does not mean we should ignore the 'normal' everyday reasons that cause us harm. Being spiritual does not mean believing that every single negative event or physical ailment that happens to us is due to bad luck or negative energy influences, because sometimes they happen precisely because we have done something wrong, 'asked for it' and not paid enough attention to our health. So it is good to know both sides. Many people in the world say they are skeptical, and even when there is a very dark entity in their home, causing serious health problems for the people who live there, they prefer to think that these pains are normal and that there is a logical explanation for everything. Obviously, these are Low people who think they know everything but are more ignorant than the ignorant. At the same time, however, we must not fall into the opposite trap, thinking that every single health or life problem is caused by someone who hates us or is trying to hurt us, when a small gesture would be enough to get rid of that health problem. Today, I have explained the main reasons that can disturb our sleep on a daily basis, which are: poor digestion; afternoon naps; staring at your cell phone screen shortly before going to sleep; poor air circulation in the room, which causes your body to wake up repeatedly during the night and prevents you from falling into a deep sleep. Now that you know this new information, I recommend that you pay more attention to each of these factors, because one or all of them together can disturb your sleep and cause physical discomfort such as headaches, nausea at night or upon waking, etc. Regardless of whether these are the reasons for your discomfort, or if there is something else, this is still useful information to know, because it is always better to know than to ignore it. That said, as you well know if you are following this Path, during the day and at night we are disturbed by many negative energies, including presences, such as negative entities and more. These presences can keep us awake at night, disturb and program our dreams to make us experience nightmares, and can seriously cause physical and emotional damage that will make us wake up with severe headaches, nausea, back pain, a stiff neck, and other types of discomfort, one in particular or all at once. These are pains that, upon waking, you do not understand why you have them and you think they are illogical; yet the Regulator tries to make you believe that there is nothing strange about it and that perhaps you "slept badly" and that is why you woke up with pain. But how can that be an answer? You slept in the same bed as always, covered as usual, you didn't catch cold, you didn't eat badly the night before, everything was normal, yet you woke up with severe pain, strange and different from usual, and above all illogical. These pains are not normal. 

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There is no way to immediately recognize whether that pain is caused by a "normal" cause or by negative energy, other than to practice to get rid of the problem. This is also why today I wanted to explain the normal reasons that can lead to insomnia, nightmares, and headaches, so that you can fix those issues and eliminate those problems from your routine. But if you address each of them (i.e., eat better in the evening, avoid afternoon naps, avoid excessive mental stress from technology before bed, etc.) and your nighttime problems continue, it is clear that there is nothing normal about your insomnia, but that it is caused by external sources. Who are these external sources? Certainly beings/presences that take advantage of your nighttime vulnerability to throw a lot of negative energy at you with the intent to harm you. Then, what you perceive may only be insomnia, because you may not yet have your sensory faculties evolved, so the only thing you notice is that you wake up in the middle of the night for no apparent reason, and mostly at strange times (e.g., 3:33, or 4:44, or 3:00; very specific numbers and not, for example, at 4:51 or 2:47, which are fairly normal times) and later you will understand why you wake up at such specific times; Let's make it clear right away that this is not happening because of the usual nonsense that is so often talked about on the web, such as guardian angels wanting to communicate with you or spirit guides, because this is not how positive entities communicate, nor do they bother you all night long to 'get noticed'; otherwise, rather than being there to protect you, it would seem that they are there to ruin your life. So let's be clear that they have nothing to do with it, but these are negative entities, or negative people who take advantage of the night to send you targeted negative energies. For this reason, in the next lesson, I will explain what entities are disturbing you and why you may often wake up at very strange times, although this is not always the case. Today we have explored the 'normal' reasons, but in the next lesson we will explore the psychic and extrasensory reasons. In the meantime, I invite you to follow today's advice and let me know in the comments below if the situation has improved. I look forward to hearing from you! 

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